feebleness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

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Examples

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. E. E. Cummings

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. Alexander Herzen

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. Charlotte Brontë

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. François de La Rochefoucauld

Our Lord of His mercy sheweth us our sin and our feebleness by the sweet gracious light of Himself; for our sin is so vile and so horrible that He of His courtesy will not shew it to us but by the light of His grace and mercy. Julian of Norwich

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